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minister, have not that hold upon the affections of their 

 congregations which the reciprocal bond of giving and 

 receiving begets among the other denominations. The 

 united strength of these latter, therefore, has been for 

 some time exercised to deprive it of all distinctive 

 honours or privileges in the colony ; and it is easy to 

 perceive that they will ere long prevail. The Tractarian 

 element chiefly, I believe, since the arrival of the 

 Bishop has also been introduced as an element of 

 division among the Church of England party, and has 

 tended to repel from its communion the more purely 

 Protestant portion of its members. 



The University has been to the colony another source 

 of angry feeling and strife. The Methodists possess 

 their own flourishing academy at Sackville, and the 

 Baptists their seminary at Fredericton, erected and 

 supported by the funds of their respective communions. 

 The University of King s College was built at the 

 public expense, chartered as an Episcopalian institution, 

 and endowed with six thousand acres of land and 2000 

 a-year in money. Jealousies arose soon after its founda 

 tion, and complaints on the part of the Presbyterian and 

 other bodies. The charter has finally been made more {/ 

 liberal, so as to admit members of all persuasions into 

 the governing council. But the Bishop is still presi 

 dent, the system of instruction is still modelled after the 

 older English universities ; and in so far as I was able 

 to understand the present wants of the people of New 

 Brunswick living in an undeveloped country, and the 

 nature and plan of studies in the College, I must sympa 

 thise with the many who think that it is still not such an 

 institution as the province requires, or such as, in return 

 for the money paid to it, the people ought to possess. 



Besides its alleged sectarian character, and especially 

 since economy has become so popular, this college is 

 represented to cost more than its labours arc worth. A 



